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At its first cabinet meeting today, the Narendra Modi government gave the go ahead for setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to bring back the black money stashed abroad. The committee will be headed by retired Supreme court judge, Justice M B Shah.

The meeting of secretaries of various ministries, called by Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, also took stock of the foodgrain situation and government's preparedness to deal with any possible monsoon failure.

Narendra Modi, prime-minister-to-be, and BJP president Rajnath Singh are holding separate consultations in different parts of Delhi to finalise the new BJP-led cabinet. Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj met Mr Singh at his residence and has now reached Gujarat Bhawan where Mr Modi is.

A standing ovation and emotional farewells greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his last day at work after 10 years in office. He will chair his last cabinet meeting as he prepares to demit office on Saturday, a day after the results of the general election are announced.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair a cabinet meeting, meet his staff and attend elaborate farewells on his last day at work today as he prepares to demit office on May 17, a day after the results of the general election are announced.

The Union Cabinet today rejected the ordinance route for anti-corruption bills pushed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi while clearing reservation for the Jat community and approving changes to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill in a special meeting today.

Union ministers and Congress lawmakers from Seemandhra, engaged in a confrontation with their party's central leadership over their insistence on creating Telangana ahead of the general election, forced the Centre to convene another meeting of the Group of Ministers today to accommodate some of the changes suggested by them in the draft bill. The G...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) in its meeting tomorrow is likely to modify the earlier decision to give a go ahead to state governments for granting mining leases for coal blocks to companies if there is no CBI enquiry against them.

A crucial cabinet meeting will be held in Jammu on Saturday to hammer out a solution for creating more than 700 administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir amid reports that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was planning to resign if he did not have his way on the matter.

In a clever move, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan chose to discuss the issue of toll collection and the MNS agitation with a select group of senior ministers. By avoiding a full-fledged debate during the weekly cabinet meeting that was held on Wednesday, the CM evaded diverse opinions of ministers, possible media leaks and damaging reports.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) may raise the subsidised LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinder quota from 9 to 12 per household per year at the next meeting, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Friday.

The proposal for the sale of these wide-body planes, part of the national carrier's turnaround plan, was cleared at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, official sources said.

Huge protests were staged this evening at the Prime Minister's home ahead of a Cabinet meeting where major steps are expected to be taken in the process of carving out a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh. The demonstrators want a 'United Andhra'. All districts of Andhra Pradesh, including Hyderabad, have been put on alert.

In a short meeting this evening, the Union Cabinet has decided to withdraw the controversial ordinance on convicted parliamentarians that it had approved last week. The ordinance had triggered a furious critique from Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

In a 25-minute meeting with the Prime Minister this morning, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi reportedly expressed his regret for his very public attack last week on an ordinance that was cleared by the cabinet, according to sources.